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Overview

Project Overview

The reign
of Edward I at the end of the thirteenth century was a time when the
kingdom of England was becoming more prosperous and populous. It was
a time, too, that saw the creation of a group of new towns guided by
the king’s hand. This is an atlas showing what these towns may
have looked like then. It is intended to be used by anyone interested
in urban life in the middle ages, whether students, academics, tourists,
local communities, or government agencies. For each town you will find
maps and images, as well as historical interpretation, bibliographical
information, and access through to a geographical database.

Thirteen towns are included. In north Wales, one group was created largely
for military purposes as part of Edward I’s efforts to bring the
Welsh closer under his political control, while a second group, in England,
were created more for trading purposes, to foster commerce and profit in
the economic heart of his expanding realm. The atlas maps out these ‘new
towns’, showing not only their location and date of foundation, but
also their physical make-up, their urban form. As well as the more obvious
architectural survivals of the towns’ medieval churches, castles,
gates and defences, other elements of their urban landscapes also survive
through to the present-day, including original street-patterns and arrangements
of building plots. Through the maps contained in this atlas some appreciation
should be gained of the towns’ initial size and layout, their early
features and attributes, together with an understanding of their individual
origins and purpose. More generally, the atlas sheds new light on those
places described by historians as ‘new towns of the middle ages’,
places whereby a town was established on a previously un-urbanised site.
As such, the individual towns covered by this atlas provide case studies
of medieval town planning, and a basis for further comparative research
on Europe’s medieval urban heritage.

The atlas is the product of a two-year research
project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a UK government
funding-body that promotes the study and enjoyment of arts, history and
culture. The research was carried out between 2003 and 2005 by a small
team of geographers and archaeologists based at Queen’s University
Belfast, Northern Ireland. The atlas is hosted by the Archaeology Data
Service as part of a digital archive promoting public use and dissemination
of archaeological resources. For more information on the research project
that lay behind the atlas, for example the methods and techniques used,
and the broad historiographical and historical context of the work, see:

The structure of the atlas is as follows.
There are two further introductory sections: one is about the towns included
in the atlas and the reasons they were chosen; after this a second section
explains how the atlas maps were made and how they can be used. The main
substance of the atlas then follows this, with a short introduction.
This main section has interpretative text and maps for each of the individual
towns the atlas covers. If you are mainly interested in a particular
town you may wish to skip through to this section of the atlas, though
to properly understand the maps presented there you may need to refer
back to the earlier sections. An appendix includes material on towns
not covered in detail by the atlas but which nevertheless belong to the
same group of ‘Edwardian’ towns that form the focus of the
atlas as a whole. Finally, there is a summary of the atlas. Should you
wish to find out more about the sources used, or if you wish to conduct
follow-up work, there is also a bibliographic resource.